• Isaac Gouy <igouy2 yahoo.com> Nov 01 2010

Isaac Gouy <igouy2 yahoo.com> writes:

=0A=0A--- On Mon, 11/1/10, Rainer Deyke <rainerd eldwood.com> wrote:=0A=0A>=
 From: Rainer Deyke <rainerd eldwood.com>=0A> Subject: Re: The Computer Lan=
guages Shootout Game=0A> To: digitalmars-d puremagic.com=0A> Date: Monday, =
November 1, 2010, 2:01 PM=0A> On 11/1/2010 13:04, Isaac Gouy=0A> wrote:=0A>=
 --- On Mon, 11/1/10, Walter Bright <newshound2 digitalmars.com>=0A> > wr=


don't=0A> >> believe any benchmarks published by the developers=0A> of any=
=0A> >> language.=0A> > =0A> > When you publish the source code of the prog=
rams, and=0A> the compile and=0A> > build logs, and the compiler and linker=
 versions, and=0A> the OS the=0A> > measurements were made on, ... others d=
on't have to=0A> just "believe"=0A> > because they can try to confirm the m=
easurements for=0A> themselves.=0A> =0A> I tend to assume that benchmarks p=
osted by the developers=0A> of the=0A> language are correct, but deliberate=
ly chosen to make the=0A> language look=0A> good and the competition look b=
ad.=A0 Reproducing the=0A> tests locally would=0A> only catch the most blat=
ant forms of cheating.=0A=0A=0AGiven this discussion was about The Computer=
 Language Benchmarks Game I had assumed those were the benchmarks under dis=
cussion - in which case I don't really see how your concern about benchmark=
s "deliberately chosen to make the language look good" would be relevant.=
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